What is the cause of a smear from direct DNA amplification from human buccal swab samples ?

Dear fellow scientists, I like to performed a direct amplification of a fragment of 222-bp DNA from human genome and use is for further analysis. By using the following methods, I obtained...

07 February 2021 891 3 View

How to perform a meta-analysis of median and 95% confidence interval?

i am perform a meta-analysis, some published studies provide median and 95%CI of hospital stays, according to some search, i found two ways to pools median data: one is use excel or web-based...

24 August 2019 1,770 3 View

What is Pt-pressed electrodes in Impedance measurement?

In the paper Superprotonic Conductivity of a UiO-66 Framework Functionali... , the authors mentioned that they used " a home made sample holder composed of Pt pressed electrodes". Anyone know...

08 September 2018 8,257 1 View

What is the recommended practice for analyzing Flow Cytometry cell cycle data?

I am analyzing cell cycle data from flow cytometry using PI as a single dye, and I encountered several questions: (1) Which signals should be used for gating the cells? Some say FSC-SSC, others...

28 May 2018 6,788 2 View

How do I make ITO electrodes on an organic-inorganic hybrid crystal?

12 April 2015 2,662 1 View

How do I make ITO electrodes on an organic-inorganic hybrid crystal?

03 April 2015 2,717 1 View

Physics: Why do we describe light by referring to its wavelength, but microwaves and radar pulses by referring to their frequency?

In physics, the description of the properties of light generally refers to its wavelength (nm), while in the range of microwaves and radio waves we refer to the frequency of a signal (e.g. kHz or...

03 March 2021 1,682 3 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

Why almost every element would be metallized in sufficiently high pressure and low temperature?

(This statement is from wikipedia, BTW). What is so special about metallic bond that is limiting high-P low-T state of a matter (as long as individual atoms exist, not white dwarf of neutron star...

02 March 2021 3,309 2 View

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 View

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

What is the density for pva electrospining?

I'm Juan Carlos, a high school student who is working with electropinning, I made an electropinning machine with a 21g needle and a 30kv high voltage source and the distance between my needle is...

28 February 2021 298 3 View

Should we reduce the standard unit of length to 0.31951540592 meter ?

The reasoning behind this question is to align the ratios of the proton potential in energy per charge to the speed of light in distance per time. As these two dimensions appear to be related,...

27 February 2021 947 7 View

How do you mesh a thin solid in Fluent?

Hello, I have used the shell function on SpaceClaim to create thin solids for the model I am studying. These are contained within an enclosure for my study. I chose this approach as it avoids the...

24 February 2021 8,856 3 View

Is it efficient to do liquid biopsy to investigate the gene expressions of the tumor?

To do liquid biopsy and look for specific gene expressions there are so many published papers. Thera are different protocols and procedures used to isolate circulating cell free RNA or mRNA from...

23 February 2021 7,326 5 View

No streamlines present in a small region inside a flow. This means exactly what?

No streamlines present means whether the flow is getting obstructed there and the velocity inside the region is zero? Or else, the fluid is trapped inside that region with a nonzero velocity?...

22 February 2021 5,249 10 View